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Four games to get the
kids moving outside
Here are some fun games you can play outside.
Remember to wear sun-protective clothing including a hat and apply sunscreen regularly.
Egg and spoon race
Buried treasure
What you need
• Coins or other
‘treasure’
• Old spoons to
dig with
What you need
What you do
1. Plant some coins in your garden.
•
A spoon
2. Let the kids choose which spoons
they’d like to dig with.
•
An egg (or
another object
you can balance
on a spoon)
3. Get the kids to dig for ‘buried
treasure’ – they’ll be entertained
and active for hours!
What you do
1. Makeastartandfinishlineandget
players to stand at the start line.
2. Get each player to place the egg
onto their spoon and then place
their other arm behind their back.
3. When you say go, players race as
fast as they can without the egg
fallingoffthespoontothefinish
line.
4. If the egg falls the player must go back to the start line.
5. Whoevercrossesthefinishlinefirstwiththeireggstill
balanced on their spoon and an arm behind their back,
wins. Happy balancing!
Hopscotch
What you need
Nature bracelets
What you do
What you need
• Chalk
1. Draw a hopscotch game layout on
the concrete with chalk. Number
• A different rock
the squares from one to 10.
for each player
2. First player throws their rock
onto the first square. They
then hop over that square to the second square on one foot.
On double squares you must land with your feet side by side.
3. First player turns around and comes back the same way.
When they get to the square with the rock they must balance
on one foot and pick up the rock. If completed with no
mistakes then the player goes again and throws their rock to
the second square and so on.
4. If while throwing the rock the player misses the right square
or it lands touching a line then they lose their turn and it is
the next player’s turn.
•
Sticky tape
What you do
1. Before a walk, wrap sticky tape
around the kids’ wrists, sticky side
facing out.
2. Goforawalkandencouragethekidstofindthingsfrom
nature like leaves, petals and small pebbles to stick to their
‘nature bracelets’.
3. Makeitagamebyseeingwhocanfindthemostpetals,
green leaves or seeds.
REMEMBER: Rules are that you can’t step on a line, miss a
square, hop in the square with the rock in it or lose your
balance. If you do any of those four things your turn is
over and the next player has their go.
Let’s teach them
Good Habits for Life
Good Habits for Life is part of the ACT Government’s Healthy Weight Initiative, supporting a healthy, active and productive community.
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For more ideas to help get your family going,
visit www.act.gov.au/goodhabitsforlife